Lisa (from the cycle: Names)

Lisa has black hair

always black

and she's pensive and sometimes homesick

and her fingernails aren't always clean.

Lisa speaks two languages fluently

and two more sufficiently

to read newspapers.

Oh, does she love to read!

Lisa has two brothers

but she doesn't get to see her father much..

He has a new family

who would love to have her

but that makes her sad.

She's slept with another girl once

(that was in college)

but she likes men better.

Lisa. Lisa. Lisa.

She wants to be a marine biologist

and will take a diving course next summer.

Maybe she'l have her black hair

cut short.